post your best results with the D90

grain is distracting to me and i rarely see the compression artifacts that most point out or i'm just so used to it from watching vimeo/you tube videos that they have. only compression artifacts i ever see in the d90 is the banding in blue skies and or flat even colors. that's about it.

but hey man, i don't like black and white movies either.
 
Car3o said:
grain is distracting to me and i rarely see the compression artifacts that most point out or i'm just so used to it from watching vimeo/you tube videos that they have. only compression artifacts i ever see in the d90 is the banding in blue skies and or flat even colors. that's about it.

but hey man, i don't like black and white movies either.
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i see macroblocking in footage shot under low-light situations. the grain disguises it. i'm looking at this on a 42" 1080 broadcast monitor.
 
yeah, well you're stretching a 720 image to 1080, you're gonna get artifacts. but i'm just watching it on a regular acer 22incher and can't ever see it from the footage i shoot. to me, i'm gonna judge your story, not whether it has added grain...i watched Reign on Me and in the scene where Sandler and Cheadle were having some food, there was a butt load of grain but it didn't take away from the story any. good luck.
 
grain went the way of the dinosaurs along with good scripts back in the 70's. Now is the time for a gritty D90 storytelling revolution..... VIVA!
 
squig said:
grain went the way of the dinosaurs along with good scripts back in the 70's. Now is the time for a gritty D90 storytelling revolution..... VIVA!
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put down the red bull buddy...

also car3o, odd you mention reign on me, i watched that film the other day too so see how i could possibly use my d90 if i were to do some work like that. its something that the d90 could do to an extent. weird, great minds think alike ha
 
Car3o said:
yeah, well you're stretching a 720 image to 1080, you're gonna get artifacts. but i'm just watching it on a regular acer 22incher and can't ever see it from the footage i shoot. to me, i'm gonna judge your story, not whether it has added grain...i watched Reign on Me and in the scene where Sandler and Cheadle were having some food, there was a butt load of grain but it didn't take away from the story any. good luck.
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ahh... i wouldn't be surprised that your Acer exhibits a bit of a curve effectively "crushing the blacks" a bit without your knowing it. my monitor is calibrated to show me exactly what is there, as it should look on any other professionally calibrated monitor. the 720p to 1080p "blowup" is going thru a broadcast quality Kona 3, size isn't exacerbating the issue. going full screen on the Acer would be a blow-up as well, albeit a software dependent one..

that must be why you never see it. the first thing I do when grading any D90 footage is drop the black level to bury 90% of the compression artifacts.

tech aside, agree 100% on the priority of content over delivery mechanism.
 
Not exactly my best d90 footage but its okay. There's footage from my XH-A1 mixed in there, and the soccer footage with the studio lights are a friend's. The d90 footage is only of the teenage kid. Its still a rough cut (not cut tight enough just yet) and the graphics haven't been applied yet.

http://www.vimeo.com/2544920
 
bronxjragon said:
Not exactly my best d90 footage but its okay. There's footage from my XH-A1 mixed in there, and the soccer footage with the studio lights are a friend's. The d90 footage is only of the teenage kid. Its still a rough cut (not cut tight enough just yet) and the graphics haven't been applied yet.

http://www.vimeo.com/2544920
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Looks good.

The grittiness of the D90 just lends itself to anything urban. It's a very different look to the XH-AI though. I'd run the XH-AI through some nasty mjpeg codec to match it up or use Zaks add noise method.

Good to see you lot are finally catching on to FOOTBALL! It's the most popular sport for kids here and in the rest of the world for that matter.
 
squig said:
Looks good.

The grittiness of the D90 just lends itself to anything urban. It's a very different look to the XH-AI though. I'd run the XH-AI through some nasty mjpeg codec to match it up or use Zaks add noise method.

Good to see you lot are finally catching on to FOOTBALL! It's the most popular sport for kids here and in the rest of the world for that matter.
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yeah this was a good instance where i knew the 'grittiness' of the d90 would work well. My client actually used the exact word "grittiness." I graded the XH-A1 footage but then removed the filters because its not a final cut, I'll do the final color gradings another time.

As for 'catching on to football,' its my preferred sport from when i was knee high : )
 
mdifazio said:
If not my "best" result, definitely my most visually interesting:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PhnHw5LcEW0&fmt=18

Nikon 1.8 Lens mounted backward full open.

I wanted some visuals to accompany a live jam I recorded couple weeks back with my band. Bear in mind I am just learning how to edit so sorry if it appears unfinished.
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I think you have enough content there to keep someone interested for a minute or so. I'd recommend you add a lot more content and cut it faster to match the tempo. Pull back the brightness make it more contrasty and make the colors more vibrant.
 
wouldn't matter, people want their own threads....half the threads here are covered already in the stickies, but nobody really looks anyway.
 
sorry if this is off-topic, but i'm gonna ask anyway... :)

has anyone seen D90 vids where dialog was recorded separately and synced in post? i know Zak is probably dealing with this challenge for LOSSFEST, but i'm looking for some examples that are available to watch.

thanks guys...
 
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